RE: op ed: tanzania -> authoritarianism20 Nov 2018 15:45
As far as I understood, Ms Quintal is an activist but I am often suspicious about media whipped up furies and even looking at the article you post I would question one particular paragraph that would whip up feeling.
"The pair stayed in a hotel near Tanzania's the state house that is frequent by cabinet ministers, government officials and business people and that is where they held several of their meetings and spotted intelligence agents lurking in the shadows"
"spotted intelligence agents lurking in the shadows"
Really? I would ask, did they wear badges? If not how would these women know they were from intelligence agencies? Even if they were, would it be surprise to find security around high ranking officials? We certainly have them here! These are the sort of comments that infer something sinister and I tend to take them with a pinch of salt as nothing more than fear mongering.
The guy that disappeared last year could have disappeared for any number of reasons which we have no idea about and there are things out there going on with the opposition parties been involved in some dirty work that I've seen.
Nobody is whiter than white but although it's good to keep up with things they are in their own country following their own laws.
We had a case not so long ago in this country where Doctor David Kelly supposedly committed suicide but a major cover up has been suspected and only last week it was found that Lord Hutton had classified the documents for 70 years (twice as long as normal) Doctors here do not believe he could have committed suicide in the way it was said.
True or not, in both cases the media love a scandal and will milk it as long as possible, like I said this news item is related to an arrest 13 days ago.
Looking at both cases in two different countries, would you think we should be wary about investing in either? From the two stories I personally wouldn't fear any one more than the other.